Monday, 14 September 2009

/Stand-off

Hey all. Heres a just finished image. It was born of the frustration I'm having of trying to render up a line drawing. I just cant seem to do it at all. I either do a dedicated line drawing, or a painterly mass'ed in image like this one. I may just have to keep them separate! If anyone's got any tips I'd be grateful.

Hey Paul, yeah I was thinking about something similar like that. Like just using the lineart as a plan for pose and details, but starting on a blank piece to get those painterly strokes. Ill give it a try

Guido: Thanks for the link mate. Yeah artgerms got a cool process. I'll have to give that a go too. As for brushes my main ones are: Hard round with pressure set to size (not opacity), then just lower the overall opacity of the brush. I also have a flow brush which is another hard round, with a low flow amount (gets a nice oil-like stroke). Hope that helps

i don't think you really need to worry about it, but what i do is just colour in over/under line work using multiply or overlay layers, then work over the top on a normal layer. Often the lines are entirely gone, but you keep the accuracy and detail that you get with making a drawing first!